I just finished watching 10 Things I Hate About You a couple nights ago, and I am amazed that despite the extreme cheese that is this movie, there is still some charm to it.
I also marvel at how proliferative the words of the Bard are in modern literature and cinema. Can we not invent anything new? Well, that's open to debate... but I do think we owe credit to the amazing longevity of these works.
I've compiled a partial list of stories/movies adapted from plays of Shakespeare's. Feel free to leave some comments with additions or whatever you wish. I've intentionally left out direct remakes (eg Hamlet2, Romeo + Juliet, etc)
- 10 Things I Hate About You - The Taming of the Shrew (it even rhymes)
- She's the Man - Twelfth Night or What You Will
- West Side Story, Romeo Must Die - Romeo and Juliet
- O - Othello
- Men of Respect, "Scotland, Pa" - Macbeth
- A Thousand Acres - King Lear
- The Lion King - Hamlet (loosely based)
- Falstaff (Verdi opera) - The Merry Wives of Windsor
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